The most detailed account of the introduction of this proposal may have been recorded by the chevalier d'Annemours, who later published it in his Journal of a French Traveler. Against the wishes of moderates like George Wythe, the speaker who introduced this proposal opened with the inflammatory claim that "in former times, Tarquin and Julius had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell." The last two points of this proposal, including one which argued that anyone attempting to justify a certain piece of legislation "shall be deemed an enemy of His Majesty's colony," would eventually be withdraw
The most detailed account of the introduction of this proposal may have been recorded by the chevalier d'Annemours, who later published it in his Journal of a French Traveler. Against the wishes of moderates like George Wythe, the speaker who introduced this proposal opened with the inflammatory claim that "in former times, Tarquin and Julius had their Brutus, Charles had his Cromwell." The last two points of this proposal, including one which argued that anyone attempting to justify a certain piece of legislation "shall be deemed an enemy of His Majesty's colony," would eventually be withdrawn, but a rump of 39 legislators passed its first five points, including one which claimed that "the General Assembly of this colony have the only... exclusive right... to lay Taxes... upon the Inhabitants of this Colony." Touching off similar resolutions in eight other colonies, the passage of this proposal caused Francis Fauquier to disband the House of Burgesses, preventing that body from sending a representative to a meeting in New York in 1765. For ten points, identify this series of seven resolutions proposed to the Virginia colonial legislature by Patrick Henry in protest of the Stamp Act.
The most detailed account of the introduction of this proposal may have been recorded by the chevalier d'Annemours, who later published it in his Journal of a French Traveler.
{Virginia Resolves}